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Discussion in 'West Mall' started by Joe Fan, Jul 25, 2016.

  1. Clean

    Clean 5,000+ Posts

    I'll bet Facebook wouldn't try that **** on China. China banned Google and all Google apps at one point. Google is bending over backward, conceding to CCP demands, to try to get back into the Chinese search engine market.
     
  2. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Twitter's latest banning victim is Steven Crowder
    His crime?
    In a video, he showed people voted with listed addresses that do not exist

    Who are the Fascists?

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  3. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    It does make you wonder where GOOGL would draw the line
    Is GOOGL even capable of drawing a line with corporate interests and market share are at stake?
    For example, what if the CCP told GOOGL - "You go murder Trump, now"
    Would they do it?
    I am willing to bet they would at least have high level meetings to consider it, whether they could get away with it
     
  4. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Here is an interesting recent story along thse lines
    Back in 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria.
    Facebook execs faced a dilemma.
    Turkey was demanding they block Facebook posts from the People’s Protection Units, a mostly Kurdish militia group the Turkish government had targeted.

    What should they do?
    They could ignore the request, something they had done in the past. But, if they did that this time, Turkey was going to block millions of FB users in Turkey
    Or, they could just get in bed with the authoritarian Turkish Govt

    Here is Sheryl Sandberg's (FB #2) response -- it was just one sentence --

    “I am fine with this.”

    The attack was particularly brutal. And guess what? Now, 3 years later, YPG’s photos and updates about the Turkish military’s attacks on the Kurdish minority in Syria still can’t be viewed by Facebook users inside Turkey.

    LOL

    So there is your answer

    FB calls it GEO-BLOCKING

    How long before they do this to Texas?

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  5. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

  6. 2003TexasGrad

    2003TexasGrad Son of a Motherless Goat

  7. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    FIFY
     
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  8. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    Cowardly.

    The good news? Even the poop emoji counts as a like. So, I'm helping your self esteem even with the poop emoji.
     
  9. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Let's see if I can fully grasp your toothless attempt at the use of the English language today. You jumped into a conversation between two other posters in a adolosecent attempt to draw "moral equivalent" between Trump choosing not to go to war with a fellow NATO member (who also houses US military personnel) and the cynical corporate decisions of Sheryl Sandberg? I do credit you with creating the amusing mental image of you shaking your fist and flapping your gums at the computer screen about "that fracking Drumph!"

    Lastly, if I recall correctly, back at the time of this event, you were screaming the exact opposite, that Trump was going to "get us into WWIII!!!" in Syria. That was you too, right?
     
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  10. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    I thought you were pooping Facebook
    It's weird how you judge my post to be worse than FB's behavior here
    But this is the black and white world you guys live in
    It is never what was done or said. The only thing that matters is who did it or said it. You are boring simpletons
     
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  11. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Kind of timely giving the sudden crying fit over Trump not nuking Turkey

    Not even Dems think senile 'ol Joe can be trusted with the nuclear codes

    “Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war"

    LOL

     
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  12. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Good luck finding them. Jill have you seen my nuclear keys?
     
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  13. humahuma

    humahuma 1,000+ Posts

    I laugh but that may be true.
     
  14. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Demented moron doesn't know if she is his wife or sister, but supposedly 80M people voted to give him these codes because Orange Man Bad!!!!!
     
  15. 2003TexasGrad

    2003TexasGrad Son of a Motherless Goat

  16. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    He might be the biggest welfare recipient in the history of humanity, but it's hard not to like Elon Musk. Link.
     
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  17. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

  18. guy4321

    guy4321 2,500+ Posts

    Hard to imagine death threats pass terms of service for any platform.
     
  19. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    To them death threats are only a problem if they're made against someone Twitter likes. There are no universal principles here.
     
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  20. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    That place is a sewer. Never had an account on it and never will.
     
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  21. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I do have an account, but yes, it is a sewer. In fact, I hope our sewers are cleaner than Twitter.
     
  22. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Elon Musk just bought into Twitter at 9%. He is now the lead share holder and on the board of directors. Could see some good change!

    Jack Dorsey is looking for an opportunity to encourage free speech and internet decentralization. I think that is why he left Twitter. He was losing influence and didn't agree with the censorship.
     
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  23. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    Twitter cleans up real nicely when you know what you're doing with it
    Careful curation has entertained me and made me some money
    It's so odd how people are quick to criticize things they don't understand
     
  24. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I should rephrase my comment. The political culture of Twitter is a sewer.
     
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  25. Driver 8

    Driver 8 Amor Fati

    Maybe this is what Musk wants to fix
    I think he likes the platform and sees the potential for it to be much better
     
  26. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I agree. It has potential, but the over-the-top wokeness and even worse, the arbitrarily-enforced speech guidelines and its one-sided willingness to censor and kill stories damages the platform's credibility.
     
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  27. LonghornCatholic

    LonghornCatholic Deo Gratias

     
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  28. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    All Dems should be ashamed.
    SLOJOE has always been a POS
    But even a POS shouldn't be treated like that.
    The entire world laughs at this.
     
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  29. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    [​IMG]
    or this:
     
  30. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    I will concur. We should ALL be ashamed that these two are "the best of us". We deserve what we elect.
     

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